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kontextmaschine:

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averyterrible:

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kontextmaschine:

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So the American cynic-adventurer Indiana Jones beats the Nazi epic-mythologist by absorbing the legacy religiosity of his imperialist-academic patriarch

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That\u2019s Last Crusade

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Up there with Sabin/Edgar for childhood things I didn\u2019t recognize were obviously about mythologizing the British Empire -> USA transition

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Sabin/Edgar feels like a stretch, given the Japanese origins of the text, but within the dramaturgical tradition of the translation admittedly

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I mean the \u201coh, the noble still-feudal samurai Cyan was a loyal ally to the Kaiser and his steampunk empire but while he wasn\u2019t looking this evil clown chancellor took over, and somehow his land was devastated through no fault of his own\u201d doesn\u2019t strike you as a WWII take?

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Oh, it 100% is a WWII take, but one that I can see coming from Japanese national mythology post-WWII. I\u2019m in need of more convincing to see American national self-mythologizing incorporated directly into the text.

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I mean Americans aren’t the only ones who noticed the British->US handoff (or Dutch->, French->, etc.)

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